Power of the personal
Kate Carruthers We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to…
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BarCamp, Community & New Ways
Having recently seen the film, I’m now reading the comic novel Watchmen. It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from…
Online social network revolution
I’m not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in…
Online social network revolution
I’m not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in…
Hypertext to hyperconnectivity
The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still…
Future of the web
This chart from 2007 shows the trajectory of the web future moving in a straight line from where we are now (or were in 2007) to the future of web…
News is really changing
There has been much talk of the death of mainstream media and the impact of the blogosphere on news gathering and journalism. People have pontificated long and loud about the…
Hard work beats talent
I have seen many young, fit, intelligent people with a fine education, sound values and good family behind them. But they do not realise that what they make of them…
Stages in the Learning Journey
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The…
The coming integration of IT and biotechnology …
I just saw Susan Greenfield – a.k.a. Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield – on a television chat show. She is a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, communicator of science, policy adviser, and an…